[Hunt n' Fish]

yes, lots of triggers and jacks and there have been a bunch of reports of cobia this year along the South shore.

 

[lingking]

yeah, there are plenty of southern visitors this year. As far as Rudderfish go I dont consider them a Southern species. They are quite common around docks and pilings if you look hard enough for them..

 

[Fish22]

i caught a couple triggerfish last year around this time of year shinne**** canal bay side

 

[fishingartie]

Fished off Sandy Hook today, about 100 yards off Ft Han**** and observed a fisherman catch a Cobia, approx 30 or so lbs on a Fluke rig, some **** of a fight to watch. Loads of short fluke, even jersey has shorts, 17 to 17 1/2, and large Dogfish, to 25 lbs

 

[6to8ftSeas]

freind of mine has been spear fishing around shini****, he said there are tons of triggers on all the recks.

 

[wader]

there's a report on a Cobia catch just below this thread

down here

 

[ihavegills]

We see all these fish every year.

Just not sure what happened to the cow nose rays this year, NOT THAT I WANT THEM! LOL

 

[BASSSURF]

What is a rudderfish. I know most fish on the island but I dont know that one. Does anyone have a picture or does it have a different name.

 

[TheN4cer]

Banded Rudderfish (Seriola zonata)

Fairly common around structure. Here's the fishbase article on it.

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=1008

 

[barney116]

Nice size trigger caught on the Fishfinder on Wed. night trip. Are they edible??

 

[lingking]

barney116 wrote:
Nice size trigger caught on the Fishfinder on Wed. night trip. Are they edible??
Yeah, they taste great. Tough skin on them though, lits like cutting thru leather

 

[Hunt n' Fish]

triggerfish trick

The trick to cleaning triggerfish is to insert the knife into the skin folds by the anal fins. And then cutting from there. They are mainly all head, but the small pork chop fillets you'll get from there are a nice white meat.

This post edited by Hunt n' Fish 10:53 PM 08/28/2008